My Congicus and Ornate growout
- Thread starter Hao
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Little update on everyone.
Ornates are growing and darkening up slowly.
Now for the 2 Congicus. The bent spine one looks okay until it start swimming.
Ornates are growing and darkening up slowly.
Now for the 2 Congicus. The bent spine one looks okay until it start swimming.
Definitely was not like this when I got it a month ago. Fish has been acting the same everyday. Eating like a beast.
Ive seen it in other fish types like danios. Genetic or sometimes nutritional deficiencies. I had a bunch of long fin leopard danios like 20 of them probably 5 developed it. They seemed fine the other fish kinda picked on them a bit but nothing too bad. They did die before the others but most of them lived to around 3 years. Life expectancy is 2-3 on most danios . I read a lot on it then and not really sure as to which is more prevalent genetic or nutrition, both seemed to play a roll. Are they eating a good pellet? what we offer for food isn't as good as they'd get in the wild singly, need to add the vitamins.
Is there a proper way to catch and move the fish into another tank without injuring them? (Referring to in home netting..not shipping process).
What vitamins do you give your polys?
I've been feeding them massivores since day 1 and added tilapia about 2 weeks ago. I have kept numerous amount of wild caught bichirs and I have never encountered bent spine on a wild caught bichir before. This is the first time.
